Article 164 (Amended, SG No. 27/2009) (1) (Supplemented, SG No. 74/2015) A person who propagates or instigates discrimination, violence or hatred on religious basis by speech, through the press or other mass media, through electronic information systems or in another way, shall be punished by imprisonment for up to four years or probation and a fine from BGN five thousand to ten thousand. (2) A person who desecrates, destroys or damages a religious temple, a house of prayer, sanctuary or an adjoined building, their symbols or gravestones, shall be punished by imprisonment up to three years or by probation, and a fine from BGN three thousand to ten thousand. Article 165 (1) A person who, by force or threat hinders the citizens from freely practising their faith or from performing their religious rituals and services, which do not violate the laws of the country, the public order and morality, shall punished by imprisonment for up to one year. (2) The same punishment shall also be imposed upon a person who in the same way compels another to take part in religious rituals and services. (3) For the acts under Article 163, committed against groups of the population, individual citizens or their property, in connection with their religious affiliation, the punishments provided therein shall be applied. Article 166 (Supplemented, SG No. 28/1982, amended, SG No. 92/2002, effective 1.01.2005 with respect to the punishment of probation - amended, SG No. 26/2004, effective 1.01.2004, SG No. 103/2004, effective 1.01.2005, SG No. 27/2009) A person who forms a political organisation on religious basis or who by speech, through the press, action or in another way, uses the church or religion for propaganda against the rule of the people or its undertakings, shall be punished by imprisonment for up to three years, if he is not subject to more severe punishment. Section III Crimes Against Political Rights of Citizens (Title amended, SG No. 1/1991) Article 167 (1) (Amended, SG No. 103/2004, effective 1.01.2005, effective 1.01.2005, previous text of Article 167, SG No. 75/2006, amended, SG No. 27/2009, supplemented, SG No. 19/2014, effective 5.03.2014, amended, SG No. 74/2015) A person who through violence, deception, threat or in some other unlawful way, hinders someone from expressing his right of vote or of being elected or to vote in a referendum or to participate in a collection of signatures on a proposal for the conduct of a referendum, shall be punished by imprisonment from one to three years and a fine from BGN one thousand to ten thousand. (2) (New, SG No. 75/2006, amended and supplemented, SG No. 27/2009, supplemented,